[suvivor]

hi yes i am a unwilling recipent of ptsd and for me i have been able to live with it, but i do have one that encompasses me fully and i have tried, still working on it.

[Troy]

Clever way to express it ... "an unwilling recipient of ptsd"

For years I didn't even know ptsd was behind many of my actions and reactions. Who could guess that the past could affect the present in such a way?

Sorry that you've had to experience all of it and here's hope that that one incident can be overcome as you have the others. There are some that just seem impossible, I know.

Your use of words and the survey show that you're clever and intelligent, and you are making a difference in this world.

[(JD)]

We might get through some events, where they don't daily direct our actions...but the ptsd we will have forever. The best we can do ...well....is the best we can do.

[bebop]

for many combat vets it does direct their every day lives. I have seen it too many times. it is sad.

[(JD)]

PTSD does direct everyone's life, who has it, at least until one learns how it is affecting life and learns how to counter it. For some it takes many, many years. But no matter how much or little control is gained, there is no cure, and often rears it's head to haunt the most seasoned person.

It's like all your memories are no longer neatly filed but instead strewn all over the floor of the filing room! Each time you try to file something, you can't find it's folder, and once you get a few into new folders, the filing cabinet won't open. PTSD causes such resistance to becoming controlled...imo.... it's almost like a chinese finger puzzle. Going more slowly and gently working through the facts of ptsd and working with the known methods for retraining the brain is the best way.

Another thing that PTSD tends to cause, is that of exacerbating any and all of your bad traits. Even those traits that were worked through and "solved" such as an angry spirit or use of foul language, ptsd brings it all right back as though they were never solved in the first place. It is truly a time of knowing better and (seemingly) having no control. Then you add the frustration of that!

[Troy]

Are you a mind reader, sky?

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PTSD does direct everyone's life, who has it, at least until one learns how it is affecting life and learns how to counter it. For some it takes many, many years. But no matter how much or little control is gained, there is no cure, and often rears it's head to haunt the most seasoned person.

It's like all your memories are no longer neatly filed but instead strewn all over the floor of the filing room! Each time you try to file something, you can't find it's folder, and once you get a few into new folders, the filing cabinet won't open. PTSD causes such resistance to becoming controlled...imo.... it's almost like a chinese finger puzzle. Going more slowly and gently working through the facts of ptsd and working with the known methods for retraining the brain is the best way.

Another thing that PTSD tends to cause, is that of exacerbating any and all of your bad traits. Even those traits that were worked through and "solved" such as an angry spirit or use of foul language, ptsd brings it all right back as though they were never solved in the first place. It is truly a time of knowing better and (seemingly) having no control. Then you add the frustration of that!

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sky said
"It's like all your memories are no longer neatly filed but instead strewn all over the floor of the filing room! Each time you try to file something, you can't find it's folder, and once you get a few into new folders, the filing cabinet won't open. PTSD causes such resistance to becoming controlled...imo.... it's almost like a chinese finger puzzle. Going more slowly and gently working through the facts of ptsd and working with the known methods for retraining the brain is the best way.

Another thing that PTSD tends to cause, is that of exacerbating any and all of your bad traits. Even those traits that were worked through and "solved" such as an angry spirit or use of foul language, ptsd brings it all right back as though they were never solved in the first place. It is truly a time of knowing better and (seemingly) having no control. Then you add the frustration of that!"

with me the filecabnit door slams shut.........
no angry...i just freeze....me my brain ...its fast........i can feel myself back right up.....and shrink.........then i feel like i have to hide...
muffy